Everyday Use

BARBARA T. CHRISTIAN is a professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Alice Walker and "The Color Purple"; Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers; and Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition 1892-1976.

• Introduction - Barbara T. ChristianChronologyEveryday Use - Alice WalkerBackground to the Story:In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens - Alice WalkerFor My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties - Alice WalkerInterview with Alice Walker - John O'BrienCritical Essays:An Essay on Alice Walker - Mary Helen WashingtonAlice Walker's Celebration of Self in Southern Generations - Thadious M. DavisAlice Walker: The Black Woman as an Artist - Barbara T. ChristianPatches: Quilts and Community in Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' - Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Charlotte Pierce-BakerSisters' Choices: Quilting Aesthetics in Contemporary African-American Women's Fiction - Margot Anne KelleyCommon Threads - Elaine ShowalterSelected BibliographyPermissions